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Friday, June 06, 2003

My blog has ads at the top of the page, as you can see. I find them a constant source of amusement - as I do the ads on my friends' blogs. The ads must operate on picking up on keywords in your posts - my ads are usually for sparkly things or Christian dating sites (poor Plums usually has ads for insomnia remedies on hers). This morning, however, I was disconcerted to find: 'Need to arrest a ship? Let us find it for you. www.ShipHunter.com'. My incredulity got the better of me:

'This web site was created to assist creditors in locating cargo ships that have unpaid invoices. Using advanced search algorithms, our computers will search over 450 port arrival and line-up lists throughout the world. If we find the ship you are looking for, we will notify you immediately. We will continue to search for up to 12 months, or until the ship appears in one of the ports reporting.'

It's true - you learn something new every day.

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